118 Mr. BasiNGTON's Descriptions of Indian Species 
F. esculentum. Moench. Meth. 290. Meisn. in Wall. iii. 63. 
Polygonum Fagopyrum. Linn. Sp. Pl. i. 522. Meisn. Mon. 61. 
Stem upright, hollow, angular, downy, particularly on the side next to the 
leaves. Leaves stalked, the upper ones sessile, hastate- or cordate-triangu- 
lar, the lower angles bluntish, the nerves slightly downy. Stipules short, 
with few simple nerves, bluntly pointed externally. Flowers in terminal 
and axillary long-stalked panicles, sometimes lax and very few flowered, 
in others condensed and many-flowered, the pedicels not jointed. Fruit 
with ovate-triangular or lanceolate faces, often slightly concave, longer 
than broad, and transversely marked with very minute striz, trigonous, 
the angles more or less acutely keeled, twice as long as the obtuse 
calyx. 
I have not been able to detect the usual joint in the pedicels of either this 
species, F. emarginatum, or F.rotundatum, and am inclined to think that the 
flowers in all three are really sessile, the apparent pedicel being only the pro- 
longed base of the calyx. The proportion between the length and breadth of 
the fruit appears to be very variable in this species; in some instances the 
faces are nearly as broad as long, and in others they are so much lengthened 
as to become truly lanceolate. 
Cultivated in the hills for food. 
3. F. emarginatum. 
Floribus paniculatis parvis, pedicello elongato, achenio trigono angulis alatis 
integris calyce obtuso dupld longiore faciebus ovatis longioribus quàm 
latis, foliis petiolatis triangularibus acutis angulis inferioribus rotundatis. 
P. emarginatum. Roth.? Cat. Bot. i. 48. Don ?, Prod. 73. Meisn.? Mon. 62. 
Stem upright, hollow, striated, downy. Leaves stalked, triangular, the two 
lower angles rounded, the terminal angle elongated and acute, nerves 
slightly downy. Stipules short, without nerves, blunt. Panicles alter- 
nate, terminal and axillary, upon long stalks, which are downy above; 
the flowers small, with long pedicels, which are not jointed ; the segments 
of Pis calyx blunt. Fruit trigonous, the angles winged, with ovate faces, 
which are longer than broad, smooth and opake. 
